Sarah Maxwell, MD

Education
07/2024 - Pediatric Transplant Hepatology, University of California, San Francisco
07/2023 - Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco
06/2020 - Pediatrics, Brown University
MD, 05/2017 - Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
AB, 05/2011 - Anthropology and Health Policy, Harvard College

  1. Maxwell SL, Coscia L, Constantinescu S, Moritz MJ, Wilkinson C, Sarkar M. Health Outcomes of Children Born to Liver Transplant Recipients. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2026. PMID: 42692202


  2. Sedano S, Maxwell SL, Rhee SJ, Kouanda A, Vu L. Rethinking Risk: Predictive Factors for Choledocholithiasis in Pediatric Patients. The Journal of surgical research 2026. PMID: 42398218


  3. Antala S, Halma J, Batsis I, Maxwell S, Raghu V, Ng V, Lobritto S, Leung DH, Gonzalez-Peralta RP, Horslen SP, Mazariegos G, Bucuvalas JC, Chapin C, DiPaola F, Ebel N, Emamaullee J, Etezami K, Feldman AG, Gupta N, Hsu E, Peters AL, Romero R, Valentino P, Venick RS, Squires JE, Perito ER. Development of multicenter consensus care plans for immunosuppression after pediatric liver transplant: Reducing variability, creating comparative efficacy opportunities. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2026. PMID: 42329107


  4. Maxwell SL, Price JC, Perito ER, Rosenthal P, Wojcicki JM. Weight gain in infancy and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in a prospective birth cohort of Latino children. Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology 2025. PMID: 40814062


  5. Maxwell SL, Beck AL. Embedding Pediatric Obesity Treatment in Community-Based Settings: Opportunities and Challenges. Pediatrics 2025. PMID: 39923802


  6. Maxwell SL, Fernandez A, Martinez S, Beck AL. An update on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's health behaviors. Academic pediatrics 2024. PMID: 39586570


  7. Maxwell SL, McCulloch CE, Fernandez A, Beck AL. Changes in BMI prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic among children: a retrospective cohort study in San Francisco, CA. BMC public health 2024. PMID: 39455995


  8. Maxwell SL, Price JC, Perito ER, Rosenthal P, Wojcicki JM. Food insecurity is a risk factor for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in Latinx children. Pediatric obesity 2024. PMID: 38453472


  9. Jain S, Spadafora R, Maxwell S, Botas C, Nawaytou H, von Scheven E, Crouch EE. A Case of Neonatal Lupus Presenting with Myocardial Dysfunction in the Absence of Congenital Heart Block (CHB): Clinical Management and Brief Literature Review of Neonatal Cardiac Lupus. Pediatric cardiology 2022. PMID: 36460799


  10. Schlenz AM, Thomas SJ, Gloston G, Lebensburger J, Maxwell SL, Kanter J. Sleep quality and pain in adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease. Volume 18 of Issue 12. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2022. PMID: 35975556


  11. Andrews C, L Maxwell S, Kerns E, McCulloh R, Alverson B. The Association of Seasonality With Resource Use in a Large National Cohort of Infants With Bronchiolitis. Volume 11 of Issue 2. Hospital pediatrics 2021. PMID: 33436417


  12. Maxwell SL, Schlenz AM, Kanter J. Health-related Quality of Life in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Undergoing Chronic Red Cell Transfusion Therapy. Volume 41 of Issue 4. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology 2019. PMID: 31026251


  13. Goodman E, Maxwell S, Malspeis S, Adler N. Developmental Trajectories of Subjective Social Status. Volume 136 of Issue 3. Pediatrics 2015. PMID: 26324868


  14. Lakshmanan A, Chiu YH, Coull BA, Just AC, Maxwell SL, Schwartz J, Gryparis A, Kloog I, Wright RJ, Wright RO. Associations between prenatal traffic-related air pollution exposure and birth weight: Modification by sex and maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index. Volume 137. Environmental research 2015. PMID: 25601728


  15. Maxwell SL, Li M. Midbrain dopaminergic development in vivo and in vitro from embryonic stem cells. Journal of anatomy 2005. PMID: 16185245


  16. Maxwell SL, Ho HY, Kuehner E, Zhao S, Li M. Pitx3 regulates tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the substantia nigra and identifies a subgroup of mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitor neurons during mouse development. Developmental biology 2005. PMID: 15950611